The 7th AREA Research Project
An increasing number of companies use 3D models in their business in various forms, including CAD data, polygonal models and point clouds. An ideal scenario for 3D asset ingestion into AR is to do so without conversion at all. Unfortunately, this is not possible with today’s AR devices as they are not equipped to display 3D asset types that are commonly used.
CAD, point cloud and high-triangle count files must be processed so that they can be imported and displayed at an acceptable quality and performance level on existing AR display devices. Manual conversion processes facilitated by 3D specialists is possible, but due to cost, turnaround time and the need to scale, manual conversion is impractical for enterprise level companies to implement.
The full report, which includes a White Paper and Glossary is available to the public. In this research, six toolchains were analyzed for their ability to facilitate this conversion process on nine 3D assets representing a range of use cases. The results were evaluated on four display devices commonly found in enterprise AR projects.
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